The UK : a world beating embarrassment

The bloviating man-child Boris Johnson, has gone full Trump over the preliminary findings of the Parliamentary Privileges Committee, which has reported that there is credible evidence that the former Prime Law-breaker misled Parliament on at least four different occasions, and in the process demonstrated that he can indeed drag the tattered…

Knighthoods for Stanley, Charlotte and Alister

The question of whether Caligula actually made his favourite horse, Incitatus a senator is undecided. According to the historian Suetonius, the Roman emperor loved this horse so much that he gave the steed a marble stall, an ivory manger, a jeweled collar and even a house. According to historian Aloys Winterling, author of “Caligula: A […] Source

Our media is broken. Be part of the movement to fix it

We’ve been bringing you daily coverage of Scottish and UK politics for fifteen years. We publish writing on Arts and Culture (with a ton of music, reviews, poetry and film). We publish daily Opinion, Media, Politics pieces (including uncovering the truth about Spycops, clandestine right-wing networks in Scotland, policy, issues of land ownership and ecology, […] Source

Borg Nationalism

When we talk about nationalism we almost always are asked to consider it in terms of Scotland or Ireland, but never British or English nationalism. But the recent downfall of Nicola Sturgeon, allied with the parallel rise in Muscular Unionism, has changed this. While British nationalism pre-supposes that it simply cannot exist because it is […] Source

Feeling special

Are we all feeling special? Rishi Sunak is currently even more unbearably smug than his base state of resting smug face because the wheels have not yet come off his Brexit deal. This is something of a novelty for Sunak, because when he was Chancellor the cracks typically started showing in…